Improvement in clothes-line hooks



anatema JAMES AND-MATTHEW-ILKIMBALL OF SA FORMA.

Letters Patent No. 108,776', dated November 1. 1870.`

IMPROVEMENT IN Cl-.QTHES-LINE HOOKS.

' The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and vmaking pax-t ofthe same.

A VATo all whom it 'ma/y concern Beit known that we, JAMES Ganvnv' and'Man' Tnnw H. KnrBALL,-both of the city and county of San Francisco,State of California, have invented a new and improved Clothes-line Hook;and wel do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same, reference being had to .the accompanyingdrawing making a part of this speciication, in whic t t A Figure 2 is aview of our'device used as a clothesline hook. Y y

This invention is intended as a means of securing, in a simple andconvenient' manner, ro`pes and lines,

for any purposejwhere the device may be. applicable,

and it is more particular-l y designedf'or use Qri'clothcslilies used tohang clothes upon vto dry after being' The device, having enlargedproportie11s,:A

washed. l may also he used to advantage on wharves, piers, ferry-boats,steam'ers, anflvessels of all classes, oEering, as it does, a simple andeffective means for securrug the hawser or tie-line which holds thevessel to` her mooringsr There are many applications which readilysuggest themselves, and in which-the principle of our invention may befounduseful, and which may be generally 'covered by stating thatwecontemplate using our invention in all eases where a rope or cord is to.be secured firmly at a given4 p ointg and yet-permitted t be instantlytightened up by hauling in the slack.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use our invention, -wewill describe it, as follows:

Referring to tig. 2 in the drawing, it will be seen that thisapplication ofthe deviceA varesfrom the common clothes-hook by havingthe addition of a` knob or stem, A, projecting inward from the mainbracket B. There will be thc lips D D cast on the sides of the brackets,

' as it were, for the. rope. i

which will be suitably shaped to form a seat or bed,

We may, if we wish, provide a loose .roller or sleeve around the steinA; also, one may be fitted on the vertical stein at B, if required inany case; b ut ordinarily these rollers may be dispensed with. lThefinvention does not go beyond combining the knob'or stem A, the lipsD D, and the vertical stem B, and it Ais'not material how the hook issecuredto the wall or post to which it may be attached.4 Y The operationof the hook is simple, and-as1fol lows:

Take the line or rope and form avloop, place the eye of the loop overthe knob A, and let the crossedpartsof the line pass oneon eachl side ofthe vertical 'stern B; now'the uppermost end of the line will be thepart on which the weight or strain will come, and in bearing down on thepart ofthe line underneath, at thecrossingvof .the line, the'pressurewill be suili- `cient to prevent the line from slipping; the greater theweight or strain on the line, the less liability there `will be to slip.

- Whenit is desired to take up' the slack it is only necessary to haulon the end of the line whichpasses underneath at the loop, and the linemay be tautf ened. with ease, allv the slack which is taken in beingfirmlyl held.

What we claim las our invention, and desire i-o-secure by' LettersPatent, is as follows:

The clothesline hook, consisting of the knob- A,

vertical stem B, and lips D D, as illustrated. in lig. 2

of drawing, as and for the purposes set forth;

JAMES GABVEY. Witnesses: MATTHEW 1I. KIMBALL.-

GEO. PAnDY, J om; Banny.

N FRANOISCQ'CALI- l

